Sunday, December 4, 2016

At first I dismissed the Democrats' subsidized street riots and vandalism, moronic election recount demands, and perfervid
attacks on Trump and his supporters in the press as a demonstration of their juvenile, narcissistic refusal to accept defeat. Then I
read the brilliant essay by Angelo Codevilla
It’s a bit long and I know your Sundays are busy but if you can’t read it all at once, I’ll summarize what I think are the most
significant points in the hope that if the topic is of interest you’ll read it all. He traces the notion of political correctness from the
1930 Communist movement through Antonio Gramsci’s “cultural hegemony” configuration to the modern Democratic Party and
finds in them a familiar strain:
[A]ll progressives, Communists included, claim to be about creating new human realities, they are perpetually at
war against nature’s laws and limits. But since reality does not yield, progressives end up pretending that they
themselves embody those new realities. Hence, any progressive movement’s nominal goal eventually ends up
being subordinated to the urgent, all-important question of the movement’s own power. Because that power is
insecure as long as others are able to question the truth of what the progressives say about themselves and the
world, progressive movements end up struggling not so much to create the promised new realities as to force
people to speak and act as if these were real: as if what is correct politically -- i.e., what thoughts serve the party’s
interest -- were correct factually.
Communist states furnish only the most prominent examples of such attempted groupthink. Progressive parties
everywhere have sought to monopolize educational and cultural institutions in order to force those under their
thumbs to sing their tunes or to shut up. But having brought about the opposite of the prosperity, health, wisdom,
or happiness that their ideology advertised, they have been unable to force folks to ignore the gap between political
correctness and reality.
He argues that this effort is bound to fail and progressives everywhere have had the same reaction “to this failure by becoming
their own reason for being.” Their movements are never about what they say they are. They are about gaining power for
themselves and destroying any who stand in their way. Those who refuse to comply with their
ever-changing and ever more ridiculously unreal versions of nature and humanity must be the
objects of never-ending warfare.
Unlike the Machiavellian Gramscian model of attaining power through cultural hegemony and
coopting the institutions which might oppose them, the American left has chosen to go even
further and pick “fights with the common sense of people it cannot wholly control.” American
schools of education taught a version of America in which this country “was born tainted by Western original sins -- racism,
sexism, greed and genocide against natives and the environment all wrapped in religious obscurantism and on the basis of
hypocritical promises of freedom and equality.” These teachers created “a uniform class” which “now presides over nearly all
federal and state, government bureaucracies, over the media, the educational establishment, and major corporations.”

Why does the American Left demand ever-new P.C. obeisances? In 2012 no one would have thought that defining
marriage between one man and one woman, as enshrined in U.S. law, would brand those who do so as motivated
by a culpable psychopathology called “homophobia,” subject to fines and near-outlaw status. Not until 2015-16
did it occur to anyone that requiring persons with male personal plumbing to use public bathrooms reserved for
men was a sign of the same pathology. Why had not these become part of the P.C. demands previously? Why is
there no canon of P.C. that, once filled, would require no further additions?
Because the point of P.C. is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the
imposition itself. Much less is it about creating a definable common culture or achieving some definable good. On
the retail level, it is about the American’s ruling class’s felt need to squeeze the last drops of voter participation out
of the Democratic Party’s habitual constituencies. On the wholesale level, it is a war on civilization waged to
indulge identity politics.

Hurting dissenters has become, he argues, “an addictive pleasure” because they really have no priorities beyond aggrandizing
their own power.
The end result of this insult to voters was the election of Trump and the rejection, almost entirely, of the Democratic Party.
As if to underscore that the flailing left hasn’t got the message and insists it has the right to silence those who hold different
opinions we have three examples this week: Kellogg’s attack on Breitbart, BuzzFeed’s attack on the Gaineses and the boycott of
Goldberg’s Bagels in Baltimore. They are all on a different scale of course, but all reflect the common leftist conceit that they are
the fonts of all that is good and true and the rest of us must comply with whatever is this day’s fashions -- from “global warming”
to men in girls’ bathrooms, to ignoring Planned Parenthood’s sale of fetal body parts.
Kellogg’s
To most of us, Kellogg's Cereal is breakfast fare (cereal, Pop-Tarts). What is less well-known is that its non-profit arm, the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation, funds and supports a dogs’ breakfast of unsavory leftwing operations -- from Soros’ Open Society to the
odious foundation money-laundering outfit, the Tides Center.
This week, it flounced its skirts and announced it was pulling its advertising from the highly effective Breitbart site: “We
regularly work with our media-buying partners to ensure our ads do not appear on sites that are not aligned with our values as a
company,” said Kris Charles, a spokeswoman for Kellogg’s. “We recently reviewed the list of sites where our ads can be placed
and decided to discontinue advertising on Breitbart.com. We are working to remove our ads from that site.”
Breitbart regularly having challenged the orthodoxy of the mainstream media and the uniparty, every good leftist -- and I count
Kellogg’s management in that category -- must do all it can to demonize it, despite the unrealistic and untrue charges against the
site and Steve Bannon who was its former executive chair and now is chief strategist for president-elect Trump. (In the same
manner, at a Harvard Symposium this week, the losing Clinton advisors attacked the Trump campaign for “racist dog whistles” t
win the election. I suppose that’s easier than conceding they ran a dreadful campaign for a candidate who called those who
opposed her “deplorables” and offered no policy reasons -- only her sex and time [poorly] served in elective office. They ought t
read Codevilla for a clue.)
Chip and Joanna Gaines
Democratic candidates pay election-year homage to religious beliefs (Clinton, for example, talked about her “Methodist beliefs”
forming her views). They are coopting religious organizations, inter alia, Mussolini-style by means of lavishly funding the “faith-
based” NGOs which are paid per head to place unskilled, unvetted Moslem refugees on the U.S. welfare rolls in exchange for
which they lobby for more such immigration. At the same it is no secret that the ruling elites make every effort to undermine
Judeo-Christian beliefs and attack believers.
This week’s designated target is HGTV’s “Fixer Upper couple Chip and Joanna Gaines”. In a particularly odious witch-hunting
move, BuzzFeed posted that they attended a church whose pastor believes the Bible -- that marriage is reserved for a man and a
woman.
Why anyone, other than the author of this piece, cares was a mystery to even the Washington Post, but if so, it’s because the
Post’s writers haven’t been paying attention to the earlier successful anti-religious PC campaigns forcing wedding cake bakers
and florists to serve at gay weddings or nuns to provide contraceptive coverage for their employees.
Ace of Spades Headquarters could not resist a response:

HGTV has a remodeling show "Fixer Upper" featuring Chip & Joanna Gaines. I've seen it a few times. They
appear to be nice couple and seem to do a good job. No religious overtones that I've seen.
One problem, the Gaines belong to a church where SSM is not accepted. The Gaines' have kept their mouths shut
but are under pressure to state their beliefs.
So Christians who stay true to their beliefs are fair game? Right? Well, if Christians are to be held accountable for
their beliefs. What about Muslims?
So if the Gaines' church and pastor can lead to their suspension and/or termination. (Stay tuned) What about a
Muslim congressman?
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) hasn't come out publicly for the exclusion of SSM. But it appears that his
Imam has.
“It’s not within our paradigm, really, to change the word of God,” said Imam Makram El-Amin, leader of Masjid
Al-Nur in Minneapolis. “Our religion is clear about this matter. It’s not a lifestyle that we accept as being part of
the natural way of things for human beings. When it comes to that, that’s my position, and that’s Islam’s position.
And this incident as tragic and terrible as it is that does not change that,” he said.
Until Congressman Ellison comes forth and denounces his Imam, his mosque and anti-homosexuality Keith
Ellison is not in a position to run the DNC. Hell, he shouldn't even be a congressman. We won't even get into his
Anti-Semitism and his ties to the Nation of Islam.

If we can't have a Christian couple star in a 30 minute cable show about home fixer uppers, certainly we can't have an anti-homosexual bigot run the DNC.

But when it comes to the hypocrites left we know which religion is acceptable, don't we?

Goldberg’s Bagels

Goldberg’s Bagels is a small kosher bakery in Baltimore,
When a customer attacked pro-Trump supporters outside his store, claiming Trump was a rapist and racist, the shop owner tried
to quell the disturbance by asking the woman to leave. She further insulted Trump and then his supporters. This prompted Mr.
Drebin, the shop owner, to express his own support for Trump, after which his Facebook page was filled with insults suggesting
Drebin approved of “anti-Semitism, misogyny, xenophobia and alt-right leanings.” The entire PC shtick.
His business dropped by 15%.
Keep this stuff up and someday there won’t be a Democratic Party. In the meantime, I note that Goldberg’s Bagels has a website,

and you can order by mail. They’re very delicious, (So is Chik-fil-A, by the way.)
Let the left play the P.C. card all they want, I will fight to trump them every time.

Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.

The Goals of Communism

(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.